Boris Pasternak Quotes

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.